We’ve been discussing (these points) for 20 weeks and have yet to reach finality.

We have authorized the release of funds from existing projects, and we are preparing emergency assistance for those countries that will require additional financing,

One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.

There is no sense of forcing; There is no sense of insisting; There is no sense of saying that we know better,

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

It is not in the purview of the bank to either start globalization or stop it, … We have to recognize that globalization is taking place and work with that. We can’t change it, but...

I did embrace him (Bono) but I did not agree with him,

I share with my colleagues the feeling of distress from the problems that have arisen on the streets,

I am just going to see in the next quarter of this year what my own plans are, and see whether I can still make a contribution, or maybe there will be others who can...

possible to move in and out, and trade as freely as possible within the constraints of security for Israel.

We estimate that tens of thousands more children will die worldwide and some 10 million people are likely to be living below the poverty line of $1 a day because of the terrorist attacks.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it’s very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

We are asking for calm, and the opportunity to build a bridge, … But it’s very difficult to build a bridge if only one side is building it.

The truth of the matter is … I have found it difficult to understand why on six issues in 20 weeks of negotiations it has been impossible to bring about more progress

I think that they are more likely to have Palestinians come behind them than throw them out.

We respect the demonstrators’ right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world’s most pressing problems?

If we do not want to see rising tension leading to violence and chaos particularly just before the Israeli election we will have to develop urgently a convincing strategy addressing the PA’s financial and developmental...

The Quartet itself must continue, but the role of a disenfranchised leader of that Quartet does not seem to me to be a particularly attractive thing to spend your life doing. And so I am...

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there’s no way that we’re going to have a...